Bollodingen is a former
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality ...
in the
Oberaargau administrative district in the
canton of
Bern in
Switzerland. On 1 January 2011 it was merged with the municipality of
Bettenhausen.
History
Bollodingen is first mentioned in 1266 as ''Bolathingen''.
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Geography
Bollodingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 60.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 30.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics]
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.1%. 30.1% of the total land area is heavily forested. Of the agricultural land, 41.3% is used for growing crops and 18.4% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.[
The municipality is located in the Önz valley.
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Demographics
Bollodingen has a population (as of 31 December 2010) of 205.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office - STAT-TAB](_blank)
, online database – ''Datenwürfel für Thema 01.2 - Bevölkerungsstand und -bewegung'' accessed 29 September , 3.0% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 3.6%. Most of the population () speaks German (98.6%), with French being second most common ( 0.9%) and English being third ( 0.5%).
In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 52.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (18.3%), the FDP (9.2%) and the local small left-wing parties (8.2%).
The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 26.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.7%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Bollodingen about 84.6% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education
Secondary education or post-primary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education scale. Level 2 or lower secondary education (less commonly junior secondary education) is considered the second and final ph ...
or additional higher education (either University or a ''Fachhochschule
A ''Fachhochschule'' (; plural ''Fachhochschulen''), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied ar ...
'').
Bollodingen has an unemployment rate of 0.93%. , there were 18 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 8 businesses involved in this sector. 36 people are employed in the secondary sector
In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructio ...
and there are 3 businesses in this sector. 5 people are employed in the tertiary sector
The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector ( raw materials) and the secon ...
, with 2 businesses in this sector.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office]
accessed 20-Jul-2009
The historical population is given in the following table:
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Former municipalities of the canton of Bern